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A woman was killed as militants shelled an area near the Proletarska coalmine in Luhansk Oblast, the headquarters of the Ukrainian government forces' operation in Donbas reports.

“An elderly woman received a severe injury and died in a vegetable garden near her home after the militants fired four antitank guided missiles upon an area near the coalmine,” reads the report.

It was reported earlier that the village of Novotoshkivka, Popasna district, was shelled by tanks and mortars on May 2.